22 KEY TO GENERA AND SPECIES 



Fig. 41. Persimmon. 



Fruit elongated, fleshy or juicy, less than 

 inch long, with the seed enclosed in a hard 

 stone. Central Me. southwestward and 

 westward. (Figs. 42, 43.) Tupelo, Black 

 Gum, Sour Gum, Gum, Nyssa sylvatica 

 Marsh. 



Fig. 42. 

 Tupelo. 



Fig. 43. Tupelo. 



